I subtitled this clip of Raha reciting poetry on the Iranian TV game show, so that people who don’t know Farsi could understand how talented

امشب در سر شوري دارم امشب در دل نــوري دارم باز امشب در اوج آسـمانم رازي بـاشـــد بـا ستارگانم امشب يک سر شوق وشورم از

July 4th, Tehran International Fairgrounds concert with Homayoun Khorram-violin, Saman Ehtashami-piano, Omran Foruzash-tonbak, Amirhossein Reza-tar, Jaleh Sadeghian-declame. Tonight, on my 53rd week in Tehran, I

A true story as told by my great-uncle Alexander (Sando) Warda: “In 1950, I lived in Abadan and worked at the refinery there. At that

این واقعا بهترین ویدیو هست که دیدم.  این کلیپ پدر من را در یک نمایشگاه نقاشی در کرمانشاه در سال 1987 همراه با هنرمند کرد

once upon a time my cousin susan and i were driving from the bay area in california to olympia washington state and we stopped for

while i was looking through the iranian.com calendar of events, i saw that perhaps the most important date in american literary history was missing. although

This is a page from Buna Nameh. For my father Hannibal Alkhas.

Hannibal Alkhas, who died in California Tuesday at the age of 80, was born in 1930 in Kermanshah, Iran, and he spent childhood and teenage

 در شهر پراگ فصل ها به موقع میرسن. امروز هم هوا باز شده، آسمان بالاخره بعد از شش ماه خاکستری، آبی شده و پرنده ها

یکی بود، یکی نبود یکی آمد یکی رفت یکی نموند، یکی موند موند و موند و موند موند تا رسید به درختی درخت انار بود

yeki bozorg bud, yeki kuchik bud, ba’ziha na kuckik budan o na bozorg, yek gorbeye gorosne bud. kheyli gorosne bud va donbale shekar migasht ke

Seeing you is reading a love poem I am the lilies that in your hair reside On the walls of your church I am the

when the crescent is on the left that’s all that there is left when the crescent is in the right the moon will get more

i translated ten poems of yaghma golrooey to thank him for a big favor he did for my baba. these are my first attempts at

I attended tehran american school for first, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh grades. Baba and mom sent me away when I was sixteen, they shipped

I cant remember exactly, but it was a few years after the revolution, right when the “begir begir” (mass arrests) started, the passport office in

In response to: “Your dog, Boo Boo, has been found” Dear jahanshah, i remember the “booboo” incident well, but the real story is a little

I had not been to Iran for 25 years. My father said I should come visit. So I went and spent the summer there. This